2025 Palmerston North City Council election

2025 Palmerston North City Council election
11 October 2025
Mayoral election
 
Candidate Grant Smith Orphée Mickalad Caleb Riddick
Affiliation Independent Independent Independent
Primary vote 15,124 5,310 2,427
Percentage 60.35% 21.10% 9.68%
Mayor before election

Grant Smith
Independent

Elected mayor

Grant Smith
Independent

Council election
15 seats on the Palmerston North City Council
8 seats needed for a majority
Party Seats +/–
Independent

11 +1
Green

2 0
Labour

1 0
Te Pāti Māori

1 +1
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

The 2025 Palmerston North City Council election was a local election held from 9 September to 11 October in Palmerston North, New Zealand, as part of that year's territorial authority elections and other local elections held nation-wide.

Voters elected the mayor of Palmerston North and 15 city councillors for the 2025–2028 term of the Palmerston North City Council. Postal voting and the single transferable vote system were used.

Incumbent mayor Grant Smith won re-election to a fourth term.

The council introduced a Māori ward at the 2022 election; in a referendum on its future held at this election (as part of a nation-wide series of referendums) voters elected to keep the Māori ward.

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